MUNICH, Germany-Siemens has won a $109.7 million order from Orascom Telecom Tunisia in Tunisia to build a GSM network.
The three-year contract includes the switching network and intelligent network services. The network is scheduled to go live this month and will initially reach about 20 percent of the country’s population.
Last month, Orascom Telecom said that Kuwaiti GSM operator Wataniya Telecom paid $113.5 million for 50 percent of Orascom Telecom Tunisia. The companies will share rights in management and on the board of directors.
“This deal brings for the first time two Arab operators to jointly manage a wireless mobile license in the Arab world,” Naguib Sawiris, chairman of Orascom Telecom, said at the time.
